RE: What do the conservative Christians here think of Professor Bart Ehrman?
March 7, 2019 at 4:41 pm
(March 6, 2019 at 6:50 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(March 6, 2019 at 10:07 am)Drich Wrote: I offer you the same type of evidence used in courts of law around the world through the history of man even to this day. Personal eyewitness testimony. If eye witness testimony can have a man's life taken from him or it can set a man free this standard should be well more than what you need (unless you have been conditioned/indoctrinated) to put enough trust and faith in God for him to be introduced into your own life where God will personally given you all the attention you will ever need to start and maintain your own system of belief.
Talk to any attorney, eyewitness testimony is not reliable. In addition, 1) None of the New Testament constitutes eye-witness testimony, and no serious scholar thinks otherwise, and 2) Travis Walton claimed to have been abducted by aliens:
Wikipedia -- Travis Walton UFO incident
Do you believe in his "eyewitness" testimony? If not, why not??
you are bad at this sport. or are you saying out of all of christendom as with Travis Walton there is only ONE EYE WITNESS to God?Not only that, I am calling your bluff on the value of eye witness in the court room.. because according to this Oxford paper written in feb of last year eyewitness testimony is still critically important in modern court room!
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view...0-0026.xml
and again here to reinforce what I said in the beginning as in eye witness tesimony alone is enough to set a man free or sentence him to death.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ac5e/58...3e5acc.pdf
that is one the word of one person who can be vetted as someone who would have seen these things as they happened.
But at the same time I will not argue some witnesses or some situation can be problematic as you pointed out with the one guy with the ufo story.whole .. however if say IDK 1/2 to 2/3s of the earth's whole population said they have seen or experienced God over a period of 2000 years or more... then the or reliablity of the testimony ceases to be a problem..
Could you imagine if literally 2/3 of the planet.. roughly 4.5 billion people all said the same thing about someone or some thing? for whom is this a problem? oh that's right people who have closed their minds to anything they do not wish to believe and seek 'evidence' that they themselves can not identify/meaning what ever other evidence you provide it is automatically disqualified.
